Improvement in the manufacture of eubber hose



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Patented July 9, 1867.

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EDWARD L. PERRY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND WILLIAM A. TORREY, OF

MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 66,518, dated Jilly 9, 186 7.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RUBBER HOSE.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, EDWARD L. PERRY, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, and WILLIAM A. TORREY, of Montclair, Essex county, and Stateof New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in theManufacture of Hose; and we do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enzibleothersskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The present invention consists- First. In covering the joint or jointsof the several sections of the mandrel on which the hose is formed Iwith a layer or layers of sheet paper, or such other material that whenthe hose is completed it can be removed without injury thereto; theobject of covering these joints as above described being to prevent therubber from 'running into the same, and thus, as the hose is vulcanized,forming ridges or ribs around its interior.

Second. Iuterposing between the inside tube or lining of the hose andthe outside covering of the hose a layer or layers of air-proof stock ormaterial, either of rubber, metal, or any other air-proof material,whereby the particles of water under pressure are prevented from comingin contact with the rubber vulcanized on cloth, which, creating a weaksolution of sulphuric acid, decomposes the fibres of the cloth, and in ashort time renders it weak and worthless, and the hose is also preventedfrom sweating when under pressure, thereby insuring a perfectly dryhoseexternally.

Third. In so winding the cotton-duck, or other fibrous material withwhich the hose is covered, in separate strips, that the warp-threads ofthe one strip will run across or intersect the warp-threads of theother, whereby they are made to support and strengthen each other, andthus to impart a corresponding degree of strength to y the hose. 1.

In the accompanying plate of drawings our improvements in themanufacture of best are illustrated- Figure 1 being a section throughone of the joints of the mandrel. Figure 2, a crossscction of myimproved hose. Figure 3, a plan view of a-strip of cloth cut on a bias;and Figure 4; a view of the same prepared for winding. Figure 5, a viewof the cloth, showing how its warp-threads cross or intersect eachother. A and B, in the drawings, represent the two sections'of a mandreljoined together at G, where a strip, D, of paper, or other suitablematerial, is wound for-- the purpose of preventing the rubber of whichthe interior lining to the hose is made from entering such joint, andtlius'causing a ridge or rib to be formed around its interior periphery.E, our improved 11056, of which F is the inner lining, made of Indiarubber or gutta percha, or of any of its elastic compounds, and theouter covering-thereto composed of a fibrous or textile fabric, that,when wound, as will be hereinafter described, is covered upon itsoutside with India rubber or gutta peroha. Between the inner tube F andouter fu bric G is a lining or layer of air and water-proof fabrics, II,by which the sweating of the hose is prevented. In fig. 3 a strip ofcloth, L, is shown, that across its width is cut into bias sections orpieces, M, that are then secured together at their ends, forming astrip, N, the warp-threads of which run as indicated by the red lines infig. 4. This strip is to constitute the outer covering to the hose, andbefore being wound is cut, along the line 3 3 into two parts or"sections that, when wound upon the mandrel i over the inside tubes, arewound in opposite directions, bringing the warp-threads across or inlines intersecting each other, as shown in fig. 5, and for a purposehcrcinbefurc stated.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desiretosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1'. In the manufacture of India-rubber or gutta-perchu hose, coveringthe joint or joints of the mandrel in which the hose is made with astrip or strips of paper, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

2. In interposing between the inner tube or lining to India rubbororgutta percha, and the outer covering, of whatever material made, a.layer or layers of any suitable air and water-proof stock or material,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In the manufacture of India-rubber or gutta-percha hose, so windingthe cotton-duck, or other fibrous y or textile fabric used, that thewarp-threads of the fabric will intersect or cross each other,substantially as and for the purpose specified. I

EDWARD L- PERRY,

WILLIAM A. TORREY.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. Bnowx, J. A. Snnv ce.

